Supporting evidence based shoulder rehabilitation

Tag: exercise

In recent years, climbing has experienced a large increase in popularity as a sport. As more people have started climbing, so have injury rates grown. Shoulder injuries make up about 17% of all rock climbing injuries, and chronic pain has been reported in 33% of elite climbers. Interesting enough to think about how to prevent […]

During the rehabilitation of biceps related pathology, such as tenosynovitis, SLAP lesions, or postoperative treatment after a biceps tenodesis or tenotomy, we have to take into account biceps load during the different stages of the rehabilitation. During the protective phase, or the phase of high irritability, minimal load should be put on the biceps, whereas […]

Training eccentric external rotator strength is a prominent goal in shoulder rehabilitation. The external rotators need to be able to counter the strong internal rotators during throwing. In training or playing a match, actions like throwing, smashing, serving and so on, will result in strength increase of the internal rotators but not necessarily of the […]